ERICA jafminiflora. 
CHARACTER SPECJFICUS. 
Erica, antheris ball bicornibus, inclulis; fiylo 
exferto; corollis ampullaceis, fefquipollicaribus, 
laciniis cordatis, patentibus; floribus fubternis; 
foliis ternis, trigonis, fubulatis, patenti-eredtis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis liliformiSj eredtus; rami fimpliciflimi, 
filiformes, longi, patenti. 
Folia terna, trigona, acuta, fubulata, mar- 
gine ferrata, ball adprefla, apicem verfus patula, 
fexfariam imbricata. 
Flores terminales, fub-terni, horizontales, 
umbellati; pedunculi purpurei, bradteis tribus, 
ovatis, coloratis, inftrudti. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
ovatis, vifcolis, purpureis. 
Corolla vifcofa, fefquipollicaris, fumma cy- 
lindracea, ad balin inflata, ore ardtata; laciniis 
expanlis, fub-ovatis, maximis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto capillaria; an- 
therae ball bicornes, apice acuminatas, inclufas. 
Pistillum. Germen ovatum, fulcatum. Sty¬ 
lus filiformis, exlertus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a men.fi Julii, in Novembrem. 
REFERENTIA, 
1. Folium unum, lente audtum. 
2. Calyx, lente audtus. 
3. Calyx, et Corolla. 
4. Stamina, et Piftillum. 
5. Stamina a Piftillo didudta, anthera una, 
lente audla. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with tips two horned at the bate and 
within the blolTom, the lhaft without; bloffoms 
flafk-lhaped, an inch and a half long, the feg- 
ments heart-lhaped and fpreading; flowers grow¬ 
ing by threes moftly; leaves grow by threes, are 
three-tided, awl-lhaped, upright and fpreading. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem thread-fhaped and upright; the branches 
are quite Ample, thread lhaped, long, and fpread- 
ing. 
Leaves grow by threes, are three-lidcd, Iharp, 
awl-lliaped, fawed at the edge, prefled to the 
Item at the bafe, fpreading towards the end, and 
forming flx angles. 
Flowers terminate the branches generally by 
threes, grow horizontal, and in bunches; the 
foot-flalks are purple, having three oval, co¬ 
loured floral leaves. 
Empalement. Cup of four leaves, which 
are egg-fhaped, clammy, and purple. 
Blossom, clammy, an inch and a half long, 
the upper part cylindrical, fwelled at the bafe, 
and pinched in at the mouth; the fegments 
fpreading, nearly egg-fhaped and very large. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips two 
horned at the bafe, tapered to the points and 
within the bloflom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped and fur¬ 
rowed. Shaft thread-fhaped and without the 
bloflom. Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from July, till November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf, magnified. 
2. The Empalement, magnified. 
3. The Empalement, and Bloflom. 
4. The Chives, and Pointal. 
5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
6. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. 
6. Stylus et Stigma lente audta. 
